Well, one reason is that--and particularly with marginalized women and women living in small communities who don't even have access to computers, etc.--coming together to do advocacy really takes a level of organization that requires support. It requires support through any number of different measures, basic transportation being one, particularly in rural areas. Photocopying, report writing, etc., really does take some basis of funding to do it.
One of the things that have been so fantastic about the women's program historically is that it has sought out and made funding available for women who have not had a voice to be able to organize and to be able to have that voice. In recent years that ability has been reduced for these very small communities, but essentially those voices then were able to identify issues that had not been previously identified.
The only funding that has been available specifically to women to do that kind of organization and to bring that voice to public attention, at whichever level, has been through Status of Women Canada. When we lose that, we really are silencing women and making it very difficult particularly for the most marginalized groups to come together.
So well-funded women's organizations, whoever they are--I don't know any of them, but whoever they are--I'm sure can do advocacy without support. But because equality-seeking women's organizations--let me be specific--are raising some of the most difficult questions, the areas that society has pushed under the carpet, has not wanted to recognize, has hoped would go away and disappear, these are not fundable through either private companies or—